I honestly enjoyed this much more than most other Japanese anime. The rich traditional feel, the sense of humor and the way Naoyuki is depicted all make this a big plus.
Everything about this cartoon is delightful. Without understanding a word of Japanese, I was still laughing out loud frequently, and the soundtrack is perfect! Thanks for sharing!
Early animation is always fascinating, and doubly so for any produced outside North America. I can imagine this would be to the Japanese what "Steamboat Willie" was for Americans.
Steamboat Willie is decades ahead of this. American animation looked this primitive in the nineteen-teens and early 1920's, except for the stuff by Winsor Mckay, who's animation was extraordinary.
@@yohannbiimu that's subjective. No this is not primitive the animation is smooth. You can't assume there wasn't better in Japan. I think this one looks amazing
@@yohannbiimu early Disney had poor budgets....with money he could hire better animators and spend more time on each cell. A lot of the later improvement is from hiring more and better staff.
You can definitely see the Max Fleischer influence in this old cartoon ...Fleischer Studios had been doing this style of animation since the late 20's....even before Disney!......What a great find!
They had a big impact on Osamu Tezuka, who in turn had a big impact on pretty much all anime and manga as we know it. And, of course Felix the Cat creator Otto Messmer was who really originated that style.
Hot take, but I enjoyed this much more than anything I've seen of Fleischer, because the story is more prevalent, coherent and less mean spirited than what I've seen of their stuff. Not saying that's bad or anything, there is certainly a place for dark humor, but just comparing this to something like Swing you Sinners for instance (which is from the 30's just like this is) I much prefer this, because that other short is so mean spirited and confusing to me, whereas this has an actual story. I do really love Felix the Cat though
@@auralunaprettycureMy honest complaint with this cartoon is that it takes forever for anything to happen, the voices don’t really match the lips well, and the sound is grating to the ears. I like the character designs but there are honestly much better examples of Japanese animation at this time
Not really this style of animation was invented by Disney in the late 1920s then due to the rising popularity of Disney Fleischer would copy their style in 1929-1930. If you look at Flesicher cartoons before 1929, their style loomks nothing like this
How is this influenced by American cartoons? There's no funny animals. It's done with the cel technique, but that's unavoidable, unless they wanted to use paper cutouts as the Germans did.
This is pretty tame all things considered if you know what everything is, its just weird because people outside Japan often arent familiar with most of the legends or folklore being used here
I like the acting style is very Kabuki, including the woman’s voice is high pitched man’s voice. Probably the voice actors are (not really famous) Kabuki actors or similar Taishu actors. And the instruments raccoons are playing are western jazz or ragtime instruments, while the sounds are not from those instruments.
The Felix cartoons probably were exported to America, and copyright laws were rather lax, if someone wanted to insert Felix into his own cartoon or comic series. These characters are however Tanuki, raccoon dogs, who have been given various magical abilities in Japanese folklore.
Very similar style to a Fleischer cartoon but you can still tell it's starting to evolve down it's own path and will eventually be something very different from Western style animation.
This cartoon is very interesting for Japanese people. Because the French movie "Le Grand Jeu" released in 1933 began to use audio. I was very surprised that Japan had already adopted it in 1935.
@@taterboob : Perhaps Ichiro meant over seas. I doubt if Warner Brothers passed out a pamphlet to other countries on how to replicate their sound techniques in film. With early sound discs (actual old style records), the syncing was an involved thing to get it right. You can't just play a recording and expect it to stay in sync all the way until the end of a film without some kind of method or technology to accomplish that goal, especially back then in the days long before "crystal sync" (look it up). It probably took French and Japanese film producers (and other countries) a bit of time to figure it out. I haven't researched thoroughly so I am just supposing here, but given the history of progress in motion pictures, it is a logical conclusion to make. India must have been ahead of the game as they produced their first sound film in 1931. ☞ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sync_sound WBs or someone else might have licensed a system out? In 1933, sound had gotten pretty sophisticated in the USA (look at the original *King Kong* for example, which was being produced starting in '32 and used sound on film recording). Like other technologies, it might have taken the rest of the world a bit of time to catch up. There were actually Silent movies still being produced in these (and other) countries in the early '30's, so sound was still a new and special thing at that time.
@ Ichiro Matsuo : Google says that *Le Grand Jeu* (The Big Game) was released in May of 1934. I guess it is probably safe to conclude that it could have begun production in 1933. I wonder if that was the film that began the storyline trope of "Did you have an unhappy romance? Leave and join the French foreign legion!"
Yes! The voice acting reminded me a lot of Kabuki as well. It makes sense kabuki would influence their early animation since it's quite a cartoonish medium of storytelling in itself.
My Poor Translation 1:18 “If you killed ghosts in the haunted house, I’m going to give you gold” 1:40 Oh yeah! I’ll get gold! 1:50 So, what time is it? Huh? It’s 2’o clock, I think I have enough time 2:48 I got this 4:10 Are you ok? “Ghosts trapped me” “Don’t worry I’ll help you” “Thank you” 4:45 “I have chills......the monster tricked me....... I will kill him.......” 5:50 “What’s the matter?” 6:04 “Good Job! We’ll have a party!” 7:18 “Wait wait, who are you?” 7:45 Everyone! Turn! 8:00 (I don’t understand what he says, sorry) 8:20 We will give $130 million! Congratulations!! Everybody! Today’s dinner is Soup of Raccoon!
Vintage anime from 1935, some 50 years before it went mainstream in the West. Shows signs of the Fleischer Studios' influence in the style, & is far better than the repetitive Pokemon series of today. It would be much better subtitled (to understand the plot), and with the showdown with the tanuki army scene put back in. 😃🇯🇵😸🇬🇧
From the beginning, this animation seems roughly 20 years behind what was going on in America. Today, Japanese animation cannot be compared with anyone else's. It is at the top of the heap.
@@user-xh6ju3pg8c Not really. It's the sort of animation that was standard in the nineteen-teens and early twenties in America, but by 1935 animation studios here had risen far above this sort of stilted, wooden-looking presentation. Also, the sound recording is terrible, and there's no effort made to sync the dialogue. When this film was made, Japan was pretty far behind Europe and the US in terms of audio-visual technology. That said, animation made in Japan today cannot be matched by anyone. American animation is utter garbage compared with it.
I love these things! And all the little sight gags, like in the beginning the building has all those different sized windows, and the end of the building has what looks like a picture of Mt. Fuji with the symbol for "mountain" on it. Also, the protagonist seems to have some aspects of a tengu, with his tall geta and carrying a kanebo as well as swords.
@@thecorrectcroissant8666 : Interesting factoid about Betty Boop influencing the Anime style. Is there a verifiable source for that, or were you just being whimsical?
I recognize the name "Date Masamune" from a manga I'm following called "Azumi," and the title character assists him in his seppuku toward the end of one of its arcs.
I think its kinda fascinating that they chose to have the woman be voiced by a man, because similar to Shakespearian plays, Kabuki performances always featured men playing female roles. Just an interesting little detail~
So basically alot of the earliest animations in Japan were inspired by Max Fleshier’s cartoons. Betty boop, (Max fleshier’s most successful cartoon) had big eyes which many Japanese studios liked. So the style of early Anime was heavily inspired by this. Slowly over time anime styles started morphing into the modern stereotypical art style of anime we all know today. So basically in short, betty boop was the first wafiu.
Wow...what a random bit of weirdness. I'm guessing that one guy did all of the voices, and probably did the animation too. They had a long way to go before they'd do anything significant in the area of animated films.
I don't know... I found this significant. Whimsically weird... but still remarkable. Modern Anime didn't descend to Earth fully formed from the ether you know. It had to evolve from somewhere. I actually like this old style better, myself.
The reason isn't lack of resources. This animation is based on kabuki theatre. The ringing voices, the music, the fact that the lady's voice is made by a man, the weird poses (for example, what you see at 3:17 - 3:22 has a name: "_mie_ ")... All of that comes from Kabuki. Kabuki is fascinating, but it is definitely "unusual"... And now, here you have what you get with a Kabuki-meets-Fleischer adventure hahaha.
(Childrena song plays) Mickey: (singing) gude gude gude Ching Ching mayo mayo mayo Ching Ching Mickey Mouse: Japan (Crossover With Silly Symphonies,1929)
A lot of early Japanese anime & manga were influenced by Western styles. Famous manga legends like Yoshihiro Tatsumi got his inspiration from 40s-50s Western detective noir.
I wonder why the two ghosts / tanuki shaved the samurai's head - using a modern safety razor of 1935, you'll notice. Another incongruous current-day element, like the electric doorbell.
I think the anachronisms are just all part of the humor. Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd (as well as other cartoons before) use to do those kinds of wacky gags fairly often. I got a laugh out of the little combo with an upright piano and a trombone! 😄 😆 🤭
Moral of the story (if you don't speak Japanese) if you have a cat, he might turn into a samurai warrior and you have to beat him with a club. Cats are sneaky like that.
Fun fact: While anime characters usually have five fingers on each hand, some of the characters in this short film have four-fingered hands (with the notable exception of the monster that was previously a geisha)
4:47 wow. there are typical anime scenes like flashing lights and rotating rays triggering epilepsy seizure. even in 85 years old japanese animation ))
I honestly enjoyed this much more than most other Japanese anime. The rich traditional feel, the sense of humor and the way Naoyuki is depicted all make this a big plus.
Everything about this cartoon is delightful. Without understanding a word of Japanese, I was still laughing out loud frequently, and the soundtrack is perfect! Thanks for sharing!
Early animation is always fascinating, and doubly so for any produced outside North America. I can imagine this would be to the Japanese what "Steamboat Willie" was for Americans.
Steamboat Willie is decades ahead of this. American animation looked this primitive in the nineteen-teens and early 1920's, except for the stuff by Winsor Mckay, who's animation was extraordinary.
@@yohannbiimu that's subjective. No this is not primitive the animation is smooth. You can't assume there wasn't better in Japan. I think this one looks amazing
" Yubune U~irī "
Steamboat Willy is only a thing because of the Disney marketing department. It's not a big deal. Seriously.
@@yohannbiimu early Disney had poor budgets....with money he could hire better animators and spend more time on each cell. A lot of the later improvement is from hiring more and better staff.
it's amazing that since that time, japanese character design was already so expressive
@nolan StrawberryWorld why?
You can definitely see the Max Fleischer influence in this old cartoon ...Fleischer Studios had been doing this style of animation since the late 20's....even before Disney!......What a great find!
They had a big impact on Osamu Tezuka, who in turn had a big impact on pretty much all anime and manga as we know it.
And, of course Felix the Cat creator Otto Messmer was who really originated that style.
Hot take, but I enjoyed this much more than anything I've seen of Fleischer, because the story is more prevalent, coherent and less mean spirited than what I've seen of their stuff. Not saying that's bad or anything, there is certainly a place for dark humor, but just comparing this to something like Swing you Sinners for instance (which is from the 30's just like this is) I much prefer this, because that other short is so mean spirited and confusing to me, whereas this has an actual story.
I do really love Felix the Cat though
@@auralunaprettycureMy honest complaint with this cartoon is that it takes forever for anything to happen, the voices don’t really match the lips well, and the sound is grating to the ears.
I like the character designs but there are honestly much better examples of Japanese animation at this time
Felix the Cat by Otto Mesmer was the originator of the style not Max Fleischer
Not really this style of animation was invented by Disney in the late 1920s then due to the rising popularity of Disney Fleischer would copy their style in 1929-1930. If you look at Flesicher cartoons before 1929, their style loomks nothing like this
Every first episode of every anime, ever...
In all seriousness, this is a wonderful gem, thank you so much for preserving this classic.
I can perfectly imagine how a modern remake of this cartoon would look.
How
当時のアメリカのカートゥーンの影響が強いけど、それでも日本っぽさは既ににじみ出てるなあ
音楽とかセリフの読み方とか、歌舞伎とか狂言っぽさを感じるよね
How is this influenced by American cartoons? There's no funny animals. It's done with the cel technique, but that's unavoidable, unless they wanted to use paper cutouts as the Germans did.
8 minutes with more atmosphere and feelings than all the animes of today
Oh, to be in the (presumably quite smoky) theatre when this first premiered...
The music, sound and voices are all very Kabuki-like
the manga was better
Fixxel Lol, no, the fights in the manga are boring af. I like the anime better.
0:02 This is the manga
Man anime was even weirder back then
This is pretty tame all things considered if you know what everything is, its just weird because people outside Japan often arent familiar with most of the legends or folklore being used here
only if you don't read the manga
@@tanookitoad979 yes
No, it is now
It has that black and white mickey mouse vibes
設定が江戸時代の城下町なのに、懐中時計が出てきたり、幽霊屋敷の門にブザーがあったり、狸の楽器演奏でピアノ、バイオリン、トロンボーンが使われてたり、小物がところどころ西洋のもので、そのギャップが却って面白い。画風もアメリカっぽいのに、音楽や声は歌舞伎チックだし。これが昭和10年とはビックリ。
こども向けの作品だと思うけど、映画館とかで上映されてたんだろうか。
当時、映画館以外での上映は難しいでしょうね(笑)
昔話に近代的な物をあえて登場させいるジョークが通じない外国人もいるみたいです(笑)
昭和十年というと随分昔に思えますが、明治大正時代にはすでに海外の影響を受けたモダンな文化が発展していましたし、昔話に新しいものを融合させたジョークがあってもおかしくはないと思います。
戦争を期に急激に貧しくなった日本ですが、それ以前までは物質的にも精神的にも豊かだったと思います。
手塚治虫の火の鳥にも似たようなギャグがあったのを思い出しました
源頼朝が家臣に「電話を持て！」とか言って京にいる義経と連絡とるみたいな
手塚治虫も子供の頃こんなアニメ映画を見て影響受けたのかもと想像してしまいます
I like the acting style is very Kabuki, including the woman’s voice is high pitched man’s voice. Probably the voice actors are (not really famous) Kabuki actors or similar Taishu actors. And the instruments raccoons are playing are western jazz or ragtime instruments, while the sounds are not from those instruments.
5:43 Honorable Shogun Felix the Cat
LOL
PokeDude011 what????
The Felix cartoons probably were exported to America, and copyright laws were rather lax, if someone wanted to insert Felix into his own cartoon or comic series. These characters are however Tanuki, raccoon dogs, who have been given various magical abilities in Japanese folklore.
looks nothing like him
Lol
Very well done. Glad to see this, The fight of a modern Samurai vs a Tanooki Lord.
This was the shit growing up. I loved this anime.
may i inquire as to your age?
Dona Quixote 20
Ultimate Kars Hrrm?
were you born in the 1800's...? 🤔
Stfu Kars get back into space and stop thinking
@@MrReaperofDead stupid 🤡
I think that one-eyed lady is my new anime waifu.
it must be a 轆轤首 rokuro-kubi.
Very similar style to a Fleischer cartoon but you can still tell it's starting to evolve down it's own path and will eventually be something very different from Western style animation.
I love the music
I HATE manga and I HATE anime nowadays but love those 1930s to 1963 anime man THANK YOU OSAMU TEZUKA!!!!!!!!
Most of the animanga of that time were just simple cartoons, what do you say?
I just happened to stumble upon this very interesting UA-cam video and I’am glad that I did
This cartoon is very interesting for Japanese people. Because the French movie "Le Grand Jeu" released in 1933 began to use audio. I was very surprised that Japan had already adopted it in 1935.
The Jazz Singer did it first in 1927.
@@taterboob : Perhaps Ichiro meant over seas. I doubt if Warner Brothers passed out a pamphlet to other countries on how to replicate their sound techniques in film. With early sound discs (actual old style records), the syncing was an involved thing to get it right. You can't just play a recording and expect it to stay in sync all the way until the end of a film without some kind of method or technology to accomplish that goal, especially back then in the days long before "crystal sync" (look it up).
It probably took French and Japanese film producers (and other countries) a bit of time to figure it out. I haven't researched thoroughly so I am just supposing here, but given the history of progress in motion pictures, it is a logical conclusion to make. India must have been ahead of the game as they produced their first sound film in 1931.
☞ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sync_sound
WBs or someone else might have licensed a system out? In 1933, sound had gotten pretty sophisticated in the USA (look at the original *King Kong* for example, which was being produced starting in '32 and used sound on film recording). Like other technologies, it might have taken the rest of the world a bit of time to catch up. There were actually Silent movies still being produced in these (and other) countries in the early '30's, so sound was still a new and special thing at that time.
@ Ichiro Matsuo : Google says that *Le Grand Jeu* (The Big Game) was released in May of 1934. I guess it is probably safe to conclude that it could have begun production in 1933. I wonder if that was the film that began the storyline trope of "Did you have an unhappy romance? Leave and join the French foreign legion!"
3:19 So kabuki. It's interesting how the different flavors of entertainment make their way into new platforms of entertainment.
Yes! The voice acting reminded me a lot of Kabuki as well. It makes sense kabuki would influence their early animation since it's quite a cartoonish medium of storytelling in itself.
Doorbells were a thing in 1935? Fascinating.
hahahaha
Doorbells have been a thing since the 19th century bruh.
Voiholl . Still it is a cartoon
ahem.
THE EDWARDAN ERA!
this would be a great short to play before watching any of the Yokai Monster films from the 1960's.
Is it just me, or do the "good guys" at the end seem more terrifying than the monsters?
*Anime is love, anime is life*
Otaku power🤘😈😊
無礼講の時の楽曲が和尚さんの童謡であるところに戦前の日本を感じます。そして最後の展開がはやい(笑)
戦前もなにも、それが舞台の物語でしょ。
I like the art style, very Fletcher like. Not really interested in Kabuki, but it looks like it's an interesting play.
Who's Fletcher?
The time when you could propably punch someone and claim that you were sure he was a tanuki
My Poor Translation
1:18
“If you killed ghosts in the haunted house, I’m going to give you gold”
1:40
Oh yeah! I’ll get gold!
1:50
So, what time is it? Huh? It’s 2’o clock, I think I have enough time
2:48
I got this
4:10
Are you ok? “Ghosts trapped me” “Don’t worry I’ll help you”
“Thank you”
4:45
“I have chills......the monster tricked me....... I will kill him.......”
5:50
“What’s the matter?”
6:04
“Good Job! We’ll have a party!”
7:18
“Wait wait, who are you?”
7:45
Everyone! Turn!
8:00
(I don’t understand what he says, sorry)
8:20
We will give $130 million! Congratulations!!
Everybody! Today’s dinner is Soup of Raccoon!
Well, poor or not this helps. Thanks. An odd storyline though...
Vintage anime from 1935, some 50 years before it went mainstream in the West. Shows signs of the Fleischer Studios' influence in the style, & is far better than the repetitive Pokemon series of today.
It would be much better subtitled (to understand the plot), and with the showdown with the tanuki army scene put back in. 😃🇯🇵😸🇬🇧
The term "anime" was coined in the 60s and the modern day "anime" industry has different origins.
And I'm pretty sure you don't even watch Pokemon like that
0:12
"Takei! You're missing a frame! Fix it."
"I'm out of paper though...."
"I DON'T CARE"
From the beginning, this animation seems roughly 20 years behind what was going on in America. Today, Japanese animation cannot be compared with anyone else's. It is at the top of the heap.
Ok weeb
@@NoNoseProduction That all you got?
Bruh this have good quality
@@user-xh6ju3pg8c Not really. It's the sort of animation that was standard in the nineteen-teens and early twenties in America, but by 1935 animation studios here had risen far above this sort of stilted, wooden-looking presentation. Also, the sound recording is terrible, and there's no effort made to sync the dialogue. When this film was made, Japan was pretty far behind Europe and the US in terms of audio-visual technology.
That said, animation made in Japan today cannot be matched by anyone. American animation is utter garbage compared with it.
@@NoNoseProduction Studio Ghibli and Makoto Shinkai: ....
I love these things! And all the little sight gags, like in the beginning the building has all those different sized windows, and the end of the building has what looks like a picture of Mt. Fuji with the symbol for "mountain" on it. Also, the protagonist seems to have some aspects of a tengu, with his tall geta and carrying a kanebo as well as swords.
Gyrlfrin is struttin & werkin it HARD in those 6-8" Japanese sandals!☺
Still better animation quality than Pokemon Sun and Moon.
Still better quality than the new star wars resistance cartoon ......
This, Pokemon Sun/Moon, and Star Wars Resistance are all better than CHARGEMAN KEN.
So that’s how the yokai / spirits were depicted in 1935
The missing link between Kabuki theatre and present-day anime
2:52 証城寺に50Hzの交流電源が来ていたとは驚きだ。
時計も持ってるしね(笑)
そういうジョークが通じない外人が大討論しとるわ(笑)
@@YuYu-wf1jd マモン氏のコメント欄ですね。
昭和10年時点の日本においては最新と思われる、製品や流行り物が登場しており、
ジョークとしてのみならず、もしかしたら当時の子供達は、
毎度流行り物が題材になるこち亀を見る様なワクワクを感じたかもしれません。
This looks more like a Fleischer Brothers cartoon.
Eddie Miller The reason anime girls have such huge eyes is actually cause of betty boop
Early anime series in the 60s even started out being influenced by western animation, before molding into what it is today.
Very interesting Eddie. Nice to see you
Cartoon is anime
@@thecorrectcroissant8666 : Interesting factoid about Betty Boop influencing the Anime style. Is there a verifiable source for that, or were you just being whimsical?
The Tanuki Party was a hoot to watch!
Interesting piece of history
It's Elmer Fudd as a samurai!
Be very very quiet; I'm hunting tanookis. Hahahaha!
I thought he looked more like Bluto from Popeye.
Jajajja
@@robbiewalker2831 : LOL! 😆
@sarahgray430 your comment just made me imagine a tanuki eating spinach to power up his transformations. actually, i think that would be cool to see.
I recognize the name "Date Masamune" from a manga I'm following called "Azumi," and the title character assists him in his seppuku toward the end of one of its arcs.
As a bald man, I like it when I get my head licked too.
I think its kinda fascinating that they chose to have the woman be voiced by a man, because similar to Shakespearian plays, Kabuki performances always featured men playing female roles.
Just an interesting little detail~
Dude with the beard reminds me of Brutus until he started speaking. Then reminded me of Popeye. Nice anime.
I can't understand the language but I enjoyed It.i love japanese animation very very much.love from india❤️
Back in a time where the mean characters could have four fingers on there hands.
You can see similarities with the WB Merrie Melodies of that time but also clearly, the roots of Anime
that was kinda interesting
Yeah
I hit my head on a wall and somehow ended up here
That 1500-1600s samurai uses a pince-nez glasses and a pocket watch
A samurai goes to confront yokai and nearly gets accosted by Tanooki.
So basically alot of the earliest animations in Japan were inspired by Max Fleshier’s cartoons. Betty boop, (Max fleshier’s most successful cartoon) had big eyes which many Japanese studios liked. So the style of early Anime was heavily inspired by this. Slowly over time anime styles started morphing into the modern stereotypical art style of anime we all know today. So basically in short, betty boop was the first wafiu.
Okay, you spelled "a lot" and "Fleischer" incorrectly. I won't even go into all your other fuckups.
@@hyliadreamer Calm down with your bitterness
Betty best waifu
8:00 「遠からん者は音にも聞け、近くば寄って目にも見よ、〜〜の豪傑、塙団右衛門…」
ここ、途中で切れてるよね？w
Sub > Dub
Weeb
@@Anon-nn1nq Culture
Wow...what a random bit of weirdness. I'm guessing that one guy did all of the voices, and probably did the animation too. They had a long way to go before they'd do anything significant in the area of animated films.
I don't know... I found this significant. Whimsically weird... but still remarkable. Modern Anime didn't descend to Earth fully formed from the ether you know. It had to evolve from somewhere. I actually like this old style better, myself.
The reason isn't lack of resources. This animation is based on kabuki theatre. The ringing voices, the music, the fact that the lady's voice is made by a man, the weird poses (for example, what you see at 3:17 - 3:22 has a name: "_mie_ ")... All of that comes from Kabuki.
Kabuki is fascinating, but it is definitely "unusual"... And now, here you have what you get with a Kabuki-meets-Fleischer adventure hahaha.
The Moral Of This Story Is: KIDS DONT DO DRUGS.
6:15 Sabton Rorke Drift But is Childrena Empire. (1989)
I know, everybody don’t know the song 😞
(Childrena song plays)
Mickey: (singing) gude gude gude Ching Ching mayo mayo mayo Ching Ching
Mickey Mouse: Japan (Crossover With Silly Symphonies,1929)
When the guy said "hmmm", it sounded like cow's moo.
当たり前のようにピアノやヴァイオリンがあるの草
既にこの頃からアニメにエロの要素を取り入れてんだなwww
5:27 Shaves as close as a blade or your money back!
7:56 Tange Sazen 丹下左膳
Now I know why Mario's kuwata mundi power turns into a stone. I think.
Very interesting, thanks!
I can't help but feel the animator was heavily influenced by Max Fleischer.
A lot of early Japanese anime & manga were influenced by Western styles. Famous manga legends like Yoshihiro Tatsumi got his inspiration from 40s-50s Western detective noir.
That's what I said! I literally said, "Did Max Fleischer draw this?". I guess the artist took a lot of design cues from "Uncle Max".
Even Osama Tezuka cited him as inspiration
5:18 that creature is scary as hell !
I gues it is a Rokurokubi.
Reinforces Japanese belief in kami which is still believed today. Always kami and animals have an effect on normal life.
Felix the Cat must have had a lot of influence in early cartoons.
6:04 ニコマス昭和メドレー13からたどり着けた元ネタ
Anime has definitely evolved from here, hasn't it?
This is like watching a kabuki comedy.
I wonder why the two ghosts / tanuki shaved the samurai's head - using a modern safety razor of 1935, you'll notice. Another incongruous current-day element, like the electric doorbell.
I think the anachronisms are just all part of the humor. Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd (as well as other cartoons before) use to do those kinds of wacky gags fairly often. I got a laugh out of the little combo with an upright piano and a trombone! 😄 😆 🤭
武士の頭を剃る…それは、武士としての威厳を損なう、非常にまずい事です。
微妙にニュアンスは、違いますが、あなたの国の一般的な女性が、イタズラでいきなり頭を剃られて、丸坊主になったらどう思いますか？
それと同じ位非常事態なのです。
2022年の日本でも、お相撲さんが引退する時、ちょんまげを剃る制度があります。
（これは文化や習慣とも取れますが、強制の決まりなので、制度と書きます）
これは、お相撲さんとして、生まれた地域の神様の仕事をしてきたのを、辞める（権利を放棄する）為の儀式であり、引退する時は、全員、階級関係無くやります。
武士の頭を剃るのも、江戸時代の日本ではそれ位重要な要素なので、だから、タヌキ側は人間を懲らしめた！敵を倒した！って事で、嬉しくてパーティを開いたのです。
人間側も、妖怪屋敷（タヌキの城）を倒したって事で、その武士に1000両（1000万円以上）を、殿様（地域のリーダー）からプレゼントされ、たぬき汁（狩猟で捕ったたぬきの肉を使った料理）をふるまい、パーティを開いたのです。
Moral of the story (if you don't speak Japanese) if you have a cat, he might turn into a samurai warrior and you have to beat him with a club. Cats are sneaky like that.
more like a badger
Those aren't supposed to be cats lol
i'm here, 2021! watching 1935 animation "anime" uploaded in 2013 : )))) thanks youtube : ))))))
When is Ban Naoyuki getting in Samurai Warriors
god dammit
Was the voice actor from kabuki origins
WWII前にこんな、かわいい映画がつくられていたのですね BY たぬちゃん
これが最近巷で流行ってる鬼滅の刃でしょうか?
それは草
That Geisha's face(when she revealed her true form) reminds me Momo and Michael Jackson for some strange reasons.
LOL !!!
I can definately see the Michael Jackson there Luke!
2:36
relatable to be honest
The music starts 6:14
Early anime looks like Betty Boop
Can someone please translate the signpost at the beginning?
It's funny that they Incorporated some Kabuki manners
sounds like snk's samurai showdown
Fun fact: While anime characters usually have five fingers on each hand, some of the characters in this short film have four-fingered hands (with the notable exception of the monster that was previously a geisha)
I came here for the sound trac.
I can see slight hints in this that seem to have influenced modern anime
4:47 wow. there are typical anime scenes like flashing lights and rotating rays triggering epilepsy seizure. even in 85 years old japanese animation ))
The interesting thing is the writing is from the left to right. I always thought it was written from the rights to left prior to WWII.
I was wondering the same thing.
Also note the spelling of "Radio" (ラヂオ) with a "ヂ" instead of "ジ" , and "Film" (フイルム) with a large "イ".
Do I have any idea what I watched? No. Did I enjoy it? I think so?
6:40 Japanese jamboree
Tom Nook's evil ancestors.
"Tom Nook's -evil- ancestors." FTFY. :) Or have you forgotten that Tom's evil to begin with...?
Saludos desde Saturno a toda la filmoteca maldita. 👋🏽
Imagine if there was a Cuphead boss based on 1930's anime.